Recent content by Baboon

You're right. One doesn't always think about it that way - they are ultimately there to make money. I have the water test results - the water is perfect. 0 ammonia, everything else normal. I sense this will be a steep, well, vertical learning curve!!! I've hoovered out some of the faecal matter...

There seems to be a lot of this througout this forum - LFS giving people advice that something is ok and it turning out not to be ok. You'd have thought they would be well used to advising on start-up systems and give advice that's in the best interests of the fish. Fluval themselves say that...

Hi! Yes I have read up on the fishless cycle. I had everything planned and was going to do it by the book. However, I did a lot of asking around my local fish stores and each and every one of them said there is no need to do a fishless cycle - particularly in that tank, but to put some Tetra...

Hi all. Just joined the forums after reading them for a while. I'm Keith, live in Staffordshire, England with my wife, 2 dogs, 3 cats, budgie and my fish. I run a Fluvel Edge - I realise this tank isn't to everyones taste and has its fair share of problems but I'm of the belief anything can be...